Crime Traveller vs People who find my name comedic

GOOD THING: CRIME TRAVELLER

Crime Traveller was a programme that fell into the dangerous category of 'so bad it's good'. The BBC, however, obviously thought it was just plain bad because it was cancelled after the first series. It was supposed to be a star vehicle for ex-Eastenders heartthrob, Michael French, and it was intended to catapult his co-star, Chloe Annett, to Gillian Anderson-esque fame - it didn't really achieve either, but I still loved it. I'm not usually a big fan of BBC dramas, science-fiction or anything shown in the Saturday evening 'family' slot, but somehow I ended up watching Crime Traveller, which involved a London detective solving crimes by way of a time machine that his Science Officer colleague kept in her living room. Plausible, n'est pas? Anyway, as is the way with most light-hearted BBC dramas, the supporting characters were somewhat on the 2-dimensional side (angry boss with a kind-hearted side; oafish sidekick; naive young trainee etc) and some of the 'special' effects were distinctly unimpressive, but the show was saved by the central premise and the relationship between the two lead characters. Okay, so Slade was essentially an amalgalm of every TV copper since the seventies (he never said "you're nicked, son", but you get the idea), and Holly - despite her supreme intelligence - often played the damsel-in-distress (in customary short skirt) but there was a certain chemistry there. Slade needed a steady influence and Holly needed someone to spice up her life, which otherwise consisted of tinkering with a crap time machine on her days off. Some of the dialogue was daft, and there were probably holes in the plot a mile wide (I've never understood time-travel, so I just went along with it), but Crime Traveller still ranks as one of my favourite TV shows from my foolish youth...

BAD THING: PEOPLE WHO FIND MY NAME COMEDIC

My parents are obviously to blame for my name, and the fact that I've been cursed with alliteration for 26 years. They obviously thought 'Holly Hooper' was a good idea, and I suppose I can only be thankful that they chose this over Alice Hooper, which would have invited comparisons to a certain 70s rock star. Anyway, my name has caused many people a lot of merriment over the years and, consequently, caused me a lot of irritation. Countless school children got whole minutes of entertainment by seeing what they could rhyme with Hooper (pooper-scooper being the arguable favourite) and Holly ('wally', naturally), and even my high school PE teacher was moved to comment, "Your parents must have had a sense of humour."
Another teacher told me that my name sounded like a film star's - but that's probably because it does; if I had £1 for every person who's called me Holly Hunter, I could afford a beach-house in Malibu. I had vaguely thought that if I got married I would have the excuse to change my name; unfortunately, my fiance's surname is Hindle - damned alliteration! By the way, the people in the photo, above, are not laughing at my name...or at least I don't think they are.